The exclusive use of pine, one of the few trees to survive cold, shows how harsh the conditions were when the prehistoric masters of Chauvet drew their evocative animals 37,000 and 28,000 years ago
We knew ‘Lucy’ could walk, but the Laetoli hominins predate our Australopithecine ancestor by almost half a million years
The entire region quailed before King Sennacherib, known for horribly torturing rebel monarchs, but he didn't kill King Hezekiah. Inquiring minds have been asking why ever since
Surveying by mole rat burrowing in studying Tel ‘Eton in the Hebron hills, sways the debate toward the existence of a major United Monarchy in the Davidic and Solomonic eras, archaeologist claims
The cult of YHWH as god of metallurgy originated among semi-nomadic copper smelters between the Bronze and Iron Age, suggests biblical scholar: And he was not worshipped only by Jews
When humans left Africa, they didn’t cling to the coasts and stay in the Levant: they also spread in Arabia, as shown by a single finger found deep in the desert – but then, there had been lakes and hippos there
Is that a 3,000-year-old picture of god, his penis and his wife depicted by early Jews at Kuntillet Ajrud?
Mosaics, colored stucco and cherubs sporting on sky-blue background found in house that had been occupied for hundreds of years
The Byzantines farming the desert in ancient Israel dined on dove like everyone else in the Middle East, but there's a reason they built their giant pigeon towers in their fields
As the rebellion neared its bitter end, the Jewish coins changed from ‘Freedom of Zion’ to 'Redemption of Zion,' showing they knew the cause for freedom had become hopeless, Dr. Eilat Mazar tells Haaretz
The ancient harbor uncovered near Ur, homeland of Abraham, is the oldest port found in Iraq and shows the Sumerians weren't only good farmers, they were skilled sailors too
Compelling archaeological evidence shows that the Neolithic people of Boncuklu developed farming by themselves, not from migrants, but their neighbors in Pinarbasi would have none of it
Around the year 874, Vikings and Celts seeking safe haven reached Iceland and were terrified as a mighty year-long lava flood engulfed their world – a horror that drove mass conversion, a new study proposes
Mission includes archaeologists fixing up water systems that haven't been maintained in 1,100 years and trimming wasteful leafage as climate change slams the Middle East
Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time
Vast Israeli antiquities exhibit showcasing Temples era and the start of the great religions visiting Denver Museum of Science and Nature for six months
No local children with bound heads were found in cemeteries from fifth and sixth centuries, and the women with artificially reshaped crania were also genetically different from the locals
‘God Jesus Christ’ mosaic, ancient Jewish-Samaritan village of Othnay and Roman command center in Galilee park replacing Megiddo Prison; inmates to move to huge new facility
Sentences of thieves filmed from the air breaking into the Mishkana graves ranged from four to nine months; Nazareth court also confiscated their excavator
Incredibly preserved fossil found in Spain by long-extinct lake shows the chick, smaller than your pinkie, may have needed its parents